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Light can only be fully understood through the wisdom of The Darkness
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Become an Emerald Author
We just released our new monetization features with the soft launch of our paid subscription Portal, The Emerald Lounge. So, authors in the lounge can have paid subscribers for their content, be it poems, stories, or books, you know, the works you've been holding back until it's ready to shine like it should. Become an Emerald author by submitting your best work, or work you like. If you think you can out-drink, or even hang until closing time with Hemingway or Hank, we want to meet you. Accepted authors will receive a code for "Become an Emerald Author," which you will find in your settings. Go get it.
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Poor Mental Issues

What makes or breaks relationships? (Emotional Maturity) It’s age difference. For example, your partner is 35 and you’re 38 years old. Within your relationship, you experience conflict which is usually enhanced by one or both partners not having the best communication skills. Most adults have emotional, mental, and sometimes even physical issues that stem from childhood trauma. Combine this with a lack of knowledge on how to communicate this pain and you’re in for a roller coaster ride of emotions and drama. When a person experiences trauma like mental, emotional, or physical abuse as a child something within them shuts down. As a form of self-preservation, the child will stop evolving on an emotional level past a certain young age. Within romantic relationships, this pain is triggered but most times you don’t have the knowledge or the tools to address it. You think you’re dealing with an adult, but your partner’s emotional age may be just 6 years old. You think your conflict is between a 35 and a 38-year-old, where in reality, you are actually confronted with a 6 year old. How does an adult solve a conflict with a child? This is the age difference that causes the issues and the only thing that can help solve the problem is to create a safe space in which you allow your partner to evolve. But that depends on your own emotional age. If you didn’t evolve past the age of 8 yourself, then your relationship develops a power struggle within immature children who are both crying for love but aren’t able to reflect, evaluate, and communicate like adults. And thus, more childlike behaviors are used for emotional and mental manipulation. A child cries until they get what they want. When children are in pain, they’re unable to see anything other than themselves. That is OK for children, but It gets challenging and even more painful when adults are still playing out this childhood trauma. Childhood trauma is the number one reason for people not to evolve past their childhood age. The hurt or neglected emotion will continue to manifest itself in your adult relationships until it is fully acknowledged, understood, and allowed to surface. The trauma you experienced as a child is a pain that you carry as an adult. It will manipulate every single human relationship until it is fully healed, but as long as you are a 6 year old child in pain crying for love from the depth of your lungs, all this will just be like a fairytale. Trauma caused to people by their mother or father primarily manifests in abandonment issues. Trust, faithfulness, and compassion are just a few of the most prevalent problems that will occur in their relationships.

What makes or breaks relationships? (Emotional Maturity) It’s age difference. For example, your partner is 35 and you’re 38 years old. Within your relationship, you experience conflict which is usually enhanced by one or both partners not having the best communication skills. Most adults have emotional, mental, and sometimes even physical issues that stem from childhood trauma. Combine this with a lack of knowledge on how to communicate this pain and you’re in for a roller coaster ride of emotions and drama. When a person experiences trauma like mental, emotional, or physical abuse as a child something within them shuts down. As a form of self-preservation, the child will stop evolving on an emotional level past a certain young age. Within romantic relationships, this pain is triggered but most times you don’t have the knowledge or the tools to address it. You think you’re dealing with an adult, but your partner’s emotional age may be just 6 years old. You think your conflict is between a 35 and a 38-year-old, where in reality, you are actually confronted with a 6 year old. How does an adult solve a conflict with a child? This is the age difference that causes the issues and the only thing that can help solve the problem is to create a safe space in which you allow your partner to evolve. But that depends on your own emotional age. If you didn’t evolve past the age of 8 yourself, then your relationship develops a power struggle within immature children who are both crying for love but aren’t able to reflect, evaluate, and communicate like adults. And thus, more childlike behaviors are used for emotional and mental manipulation. A child cries until they get what they want. When children are in pain, they’re unable to see anything other than themselves. That is OK for children, but It gets challenging and even more painful when adults are still playing out this childhood trauma. Childhood trauma is the number one reason for people not to evolve past their childhood age. The hurt or neglected emotion will continue to manifest itself in your adult relationships until it is fully acknowledged, understood, and allowed to surface. The trauma you experienced as a child is a pain that you carry as an adult. It will manipulate every single human relationship until it is fully healed, but as long as you are a 6 year old child in pain crying for love from the depth of your lungs, all this will just be like a fairytale. Trauma caused to people by their mother or father primarily manifests in abandonment issues. Trust, faithfulness, and compassion are just a few of the most prevalent problems that will occur in their relationships.

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Monthly Philosophy Challenge for March.
Write about applying stoicism in 2024, the benefits, and the barriers, and the contrast to technology, and the current social climate. We want to think on this through you. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 -Give us some clarity.
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TheDarkness in Philosophy

The Strongest Rock

The strongest rock will always survive

Sitting stoich for so long

No break out in angry rage

Drumming the beats to the song

You can't see reality is a lie

Even though I can see the truth

Never damaged nor neglected

The perfect childhood of youth

All my demons have been external

The jealous trying to tear me down

Never rich but never poor

But they tried to steal my crown

Built them all to the highest level

Unable to believe in themselves

Walk away burning brightly

But left my heart upon the shelf

So much karma to come back to me

Lessons of life have been learned

I will accept all that has given

Because everything has been earned

Challenge
Monthly Nonfiction Challenge for March.
Give us your own beginning to a story of you, starting wherever you think is best: Childhood, your first job, your first love, heartbreak, adventure. Tell us about you, the real story. The truth is interesting enough. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 -We're your roast. Baste us.
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TheDarkness in Nonfiction

Childhood of Dreams

Growing up, thought it was normal

Thought it was what everyone had

Never neglected, always supported

I owe so much to my mom and dad

Had boundaries but freedom

Space to allow me to grow

Innocence from wrong from right

Carried that happy go lucky glow

Given experience in travel and sports

Learned to play on a team

Give your all for the greater good

Built up my self esteem

Never heard them argue

Never heard them fight

They had their disagreements

But didn't matter who was right

Best friends for almost 60 years

Always relied on each other

Dad thought he was the smarter one

But I know I it was my mother

Challenge
Monthy Poetry Challenge for March.
Write a poem about a cleansing by fire, by any means: Beautiful, dirty, gritty, dark, fluffy... make it yours. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00 -Set it alight.
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TheDarkness in Poetry & Free Verse

Phoenix Rising

Rising from a desolate pile of ash and soot

Wings turn into fire

Dying off to be born again

Ascension from the pyre

Cosmic awareness and soul activation

A solidary journey of introspection

An immortal book of wisdom and knowledge

Asserting purpose and direction

Impenetrable inner strength

Power to heal your tears

Ability to calm your demons

Take away your fears

A voyage back to Sun City

Once again to basque in the light

Bulletproof for all eternity

Injecting fire into the night

Manipulating negative energies

Flipping them around

A life force of positive aura

Has risen from the ground

Challenge
Monthly Stream of Consciousness Challenge for March.
You've walked in from work. You're burned out, and at the end of your wits. The job is taking its toll on your sleep, your relationship, your quality of life. By your window that fronts the city sits your typewriter and a blank page. You must write, because if you don't, the job will have all of you. Give it to us. Winner is decided by likes, and will receive a crisp $10.00
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TheDarkness in Stream of Consciousness

The Chosen One

The Chosen One

Born for greatness, heard the signs

So much of life feels like wasted time

Helping so many to ascend

Only to end up in darkness again

A pure soul with no child trauma

Sharpest of minds to see through the drama

Empath that's able to heal your soul

Reach new heights, reach new goals

Seeing through mthe matrix illusion

Tired of dealing with all the confusion

The feeling inside is too much to bear

Going places, but no idea where

Screaming out but no one listens

Can't quit, must go the distance

Feeling inside there's so much at stake

Hope it takes hold before I break

Every day brings new hope

But getting close to the end of my rope

Don't know how long I have to wait

Is this destiny? Is this fate?

Ready to turn this darkness to light

Spread the love, give up the fight

Have no regrets, have no fear

New earth downloaded, perfectly clear

Just need the signal, ready to go

Taking my place in the front row

So done with feeling beat down

Give me my wings, give me my crown

Challenge
Challenge of the Month XXX: April
Phenomenal Cosmic Power. You wake up, omnipotent. What happens next? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to the winner.
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Second Coming

Sky splits open, flames erupt

Judgement day for the corrupt

Those men will hide themselves with shame

In fear of iron rod, resigning the game

All shall get their house in order

Or be led like lambs to slaughter

For when he returns, he will not be a lamb

But a lion judging the damned

Arriving in a cloud of lightning and thunder

Casting down the sons of plunder

Cannot run, cannot hide

He sees your soul inside

A pure righteous soul has been sent

Time to bow down, time to repent

The sun creates fire in his eyes

Judging your plight, judging your lies

Feel the earth shake, stars fall from the sky

Lost souls will fear the cry

He returns as a mighty king

Feel his wrath, feel his sting

As for this time, no crown of thorns

Coming to teach and adorn

The meek shall inherit the earth

Bringing a planet of new birth

Tearing down a broken system

Rebuilding with compassion and wisdom

When you face him, what will you say?

Where will you be on judgement day?

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Transformation

Love that's lost results in transformation

Eyes opened to importance in life

Embraced by love but feeling lost

Cuts through the heart like a knife

Disillusionment becomes reality

Waking up to what you've become

Seeing the world through a new set of eyes

In a society taught to be numb

Breakthrough of a world of insanity

Visions of how we're supposed to be

Denied through conquer by division

In a world where we're born to be free

True love will conquer all fears

Power that so many haven't felt

Just move along, shuffle your feet

Play the cards you've been dealt

Evolve beyond a frightened mind

Listen to the voice of the soul

Stand up and take your power back

Let go of all control

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Straitjacket

Anger and violence deny the straitjacket

As insanity rages out of control

Visions of past perpetually haunting

Madness comes to steal the soul

Love is a foreign concept to fear

Negative entities infiltrate

Emotions triggered from past

Indoctrinated into hate

Stand up straight, put your jacket on

Forced to be everything you're not

Fit in to be politically correct

Drowning out internal thought

Cage what was born to be free

Indoctrinated into false beliefs

Creating more bricks in the wall

Indians that were born to be chiefs

Called crazy if you dont fall in line

Through the control of the insane

When freedom is the birthright

But forced to play their game

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Darkness Settles In

As the darkness settles in

The light begins to dim

Waiting on a final breakthrough

So I can live again

As long as there's a glimpse of spark

There's hope to save the light

Feeling like I'm 6 feet under

Slowly buried alive

Each day I hope the answer comes

Pull me from this shallow grave

Scream out but no one listens

Will I ever be saved?

As daylight shuffles into night

Quicksand pulls me under

No one to lend a helping hand

Alone to feed the hunger

Holding on for better days

When the weight falls off my chest

Maybe I could breathe again

And this darkness laid to rest

As the fire rises in my head

I can hear the call within

Feel the river overflowing

Victory in the end

Until I see the light again

It's now my time to win

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TheDarkness

Addicted to Bliss

The calming sound of silence

No adversity

A vacation to the void

Mind begins to breathe

Limitless possibilities

Ideas form on their own

Connecting dots of experience

Flowing in the zone

Moments of fleeting visions

Dancing in the mind

Scores of distant melodies

Balance is aligned

A place no one else can see

Internal blissfulness achieved

A carnival of passing memories

Which most souls can not believe